[Access to origins for persons conceived by donation in France]. / L'accès aux origines pour les personnes conçues par don en France.

It was a strong and long-standing demand of people born of gamete donation: to know who is the person who allowed them to come into the world. The French legislator seemed to take this need into account during the last revision of the bioethics law. But if the rules have already changed for donors, for whom anonymity becomes fixed-term, for individuals born from a donation, access to their origins is far from being guaranteed to this day.

[Legal aspects of medically assisted reproduction in France]. / Aspects juridiques de l'assistance médicale à la procréation en France.

Determined in 1994, the legal framework for medically assisted reproduction has barely evolved since. French legislation is among the strictest in Europe. Sweeping changes are planned for the next review of the law on bioethics which should be put to a vote in 2020. The current ban on surrogacy should however remain in place.